A CONTEXTUAL MEANING ANALYSIS OF ONE REPUBLIC’S SONGS LYRIC COUNTING STARS AND APOLOGIZE

Meaning is an abstract thought in human mind. In an utterance, the understanding really depends on the level of someone’s knowledge to the language. In linguistics, the study focusing on meaning is called semantics. The meaning of an utterance or literary work not only can be understood by lexical meaning, but also context determines the meaning. In this case, meaning which is constructed by context of another sentence is called contextual meaning. There are so many literary works which only can be understood by its contexts. One of them is song lyric. Song is one of the most famous literary work lately. However, some song lyrics use various diction whose meaning is difficult to be understood. Counting Stars and Apologize are two songs that have various diction, and the meaning only can be understood by their contexts. That is why, this research aims to discover the contextual meaning of those two songs through contextual meaning theory of Pateda. The result of the research shows that there are twenty six lyrics which stand from word, phrase, and sentence having contextual meaning of those two songs. Seventeen of the found data belong to Counting stars song lyric and nine data belong to Apologize song lyric. Those seventeen data of Counting Stars are classified into three kinds of contexts. They are contexts of situation, contexts of purpose, and contexts of speaker or listener mood. While those nine data found in the Apologize song lyrics are divided into three types of context. They are context of purpose, contexts of contexts of Speaker or Listener mood, and contexts of time. Overall, there are 4 contexts found in those two songs. They are context of purpose, contexts of situation, contexts of Speaker or Listener mood, and contexts of tim